January 4, 2006
The Target Markets Program Administrators Association based in Wilmington, Del., will be conducting a study to determine the current size of the U.S. Program Business marketplace. Conducted by Benfield Inc., the TMPAA study will collect information regarding the total number …
January 4, 2006
Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS) recently assessed the risk of terrorism and quantified how the terms of the December 2005 renewal of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) would shift the relative share of the risk from the government …
January 4, 2006
The American National Bank of Texas of Terrell, Texas, has acquired Dallas-based insurance agency Sleeper, Sewell & Company. Terms of the transaction were not announced. Led by President and CEO Robert A. Hulsey, American National Bank has banking centers in …
January 4, 2006
A lawsuit asking a Miami-Dade Circuit Court to make sure victims of a Chalk’s Ocean Airways crash receive their share of the company’s insurance money was filed on Tuesday by relatives of a woman and her infant daughter who were …
January 4, 2006
Attorney General Drew Edmondson is warning Oklahomans who lost homes and other property in recent wildfires to beware of being victimized again, this time by fraud. More than 200 homes and businesses have been destroyed by wildfires over the past …
January 4, 2006
Growth is good for most businesses but the chief executive officer for Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation is sorry to predicting a 40 percent to 50 percent growth rate in the coming one to two years for his company’s business. …
January 4, 2006
Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its previously disclosed acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC. According to Hallmark, Aerospace Holdings, through Aerospace Insurance Managers Inc. and other wholly owned subsidiaries, markets and services general aviation property and casualty …
January 4, 2006
QueryPlus is a reporting tool that reads every database you operate on your LAN/WAN simultaneously and in real time. Regardless of location or size of your database! QueryPlus connects the information from any of these databases: Access, dBASE, Informix, MySQL, …
January 4, 2006
Comprehensive reform of the South Carolina workers’ compensation system, including the repeal of the Second Injury Fund are the top legislative priorities of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America during the state’s 2006 legislative session in Columbia, S.C. “Workers’ …
January 4, 2006
A minor earthquake hit a small town in southern Illinois yesterday, raising questions again about the threat of a major earthquake for states sitting on or near the New Madrid fault line. The quake struck yesterday at 3:48 p.m. and …